1. Losers Of The Year
2. Future Daydream
3. Freedom Is...
4. Big Yellow Taxi
5. Hey Now
6. Dull
7. Keeping Warm In The Nighttime
8. MPLS Song
9. In Control
Losers Of The Year
Well I'm thinking about all the losers Who showed
up to make this scene Where did they go when things didn't work out, When
they burned out on the streets? And I'm wondering where I could find
the people Who left me behind to wander these streets so all alone.
cause these old streets I'm still wandering down And I'm wondering about
all the wonderful people Who used to hang around and if they got And if
they got what I've still never found. Yesterday I saw this one old
girl But it just wasn't quite the same. And she said it's been years
Yeah it's been years since anybody's Called me by that name. But
these old streets I'm still wandering down And I'm wondering about all
the wonderful people Who used to hang around and if they got And if they
got what I've still never found.
Future Daydream
Now Now I want to see All the skyscrapers and the
factories Crumble down to the ground and we'll go walk around And pick
through the wreckage scattered in the streets. Now Now I want to
see Malls with paint peeling off of cracked walls, All the plants overgrowing
and the fountains overflowing And we can rumble through the stubble And
play hide and go seek. Well once I saw an old guy Digging through
the trash, Then I watched him walk on down the street. He'd gathered
cups, got water, And was watering all the plants Growing through the concrete.
(true story) Now Now I want to be At the edge of the land Clawing out at
the sea And we can get acoustic guitars And play in the ruins of the world
today. Yes it's my Armageddon scheme. It's my twisted future
dream. It's right around the corner, wait and see.
Freedom Is...
Home of the braves, land of the free, Where "freedom
of choice" just means coke or Pepsi... But I'm not buying it. They
say if you're not working You're just wasting away, "Employment gaps look
bad on your resume"... But I'm not buying, I'm not buying, I'm not buying
their incentives, their lies, Their empty promises -- just chains in disguise
-- while we let them steal away our very lives! Tell me why there's
still a 40 hour work week While unemployment's on the rise? Why do
we keep overproducing But still it's hard just to survive? Why does
"surplus" food rot While hungry people die? We're stripped of human
dignity, Forced to live in poverty, cause in this land of the free Our
"freedom" is all fake. We're wage slaves to the company, Land slaves
to the property, And tax slaves to the economy Of the capitalist state!
It's illegal to squat or live on the street, But rent is extortion when
you have to pay to sleep... But I'm not buying it... We're just endentured
servants Living on the master's land, Serfs trying to buy back Our freedom
on the lay-away plan... But I'm not buying, I'm not buying, I'm not buying.
Big Yellow Taxi
they paved paradise and put up a parking lot with
a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot... Don't it always seem
to go that you don't know what you got til it's gone? They paved
paradise and put up a parking lot. Hey farmer farmer put away that
d.d.t. (now) Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the
bees please! Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what
you got til it's gone? they paved paradise put up a parking lot.
Late last night I heard a screen door a slam And a big yellow taxi took
away my old man... Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what
you've got til it's gone.
Hey Now
Hey now I'm laughing at you cause you're stomping
around, You want everyone to know that you're feeling down. Did you
have a bad day? Did you have a bad day? Well I know you did,
you've always had a bad day, And you always feel the need to complain,
And you always throw a fucking tantrum When things don't go your way...
Hey I'm coughing up blood I'm fucking sick as a dog And my band broke up
a lost my job! Do you feel that way too? Did that also happen
to you? Well I know it did, it's always worse with you, And you say
you're "been feeling sick too", And you got no sympathy Got no empathy
In your self -important point of view... Hey well sometimes life really
does suck, But why can't you learn to laugh at your bad luck? Do
you want to be depressed? Do you want to drown in loneliness?
Well I guess you do, you seem to love being in a bad mood, And pouting
and stomping through the room, And expecting everyone to stop What they're
doing and come and comfort you. ha! Like we don't have better
things to do. Gimme a break. Et cetera.
Dull
Like a dull pain in my head Buried by my fantasies
and Crowded by old memories I can't isolate the disease So it spreads Like
a dull ache in my heart Just one thought starts to spark A raging fire
of doubt No juice to put it out cause my creative wells are dry From mental
drought Looks like a dull night by myself again And I got no money and
no girlfriend And I'm thinking too much And I'm making pretend Inventing
problems and despair to wallow in It's pretty dumb Like a dull knife in
my back I'm my own worst enemy This war inside of me Keeps on taking the
same casualty But now I'm ready to launch a counter-attack Yeah! (Yeah!
Right!)
Keeping Warm In The Nighttime
Keeping warm in the nighttime Burning hopes and
dreams and Even impossible schemes seem Possible anything's possible every
Thing seems so clear when your Blood is pumping mind is scheming Eyes wide
open but you're still Dreaming prancing prowling Searching for yourself
The darkness is so comforting so Beautifully intoxicating daytime's Stress
and pettiness doesn't Matter now well the night's like A church for non-believers
it's A search for hidden treasures Quench your thirst with simpler Pleasures
growl! Keeping warm in the nighttime Burning hopes and dreams and
Even impossible schemes seem Possible anything's possible every Thing seems
so clear but now Through the darkness light starts Seeping dawn is coming
looming Seething and you can't stop The sun from rising hide in The shadows
but the sun's till Shining down and you can see All the ugliness breeding
despair And your dreams are all bleeding Breathing hot dry air and the
Silence is screaming and it's all Just bringing you down well you're Thinking
you'd better run home to Sleep as the streets fill with Creep's and the
keys that they Keep locking you out locking you Into their world, a world
that You don't want to see!
MPLS Song
Iggy Pop is playing downtown And I'm outside in
the rain Listening and lurking around It's another dreary night And I'm
waiting for the 6-C bus To come and get me Broke and cold and lonely 10:00
pm, I'm only starting to Wake up Creeps are trying to talk to me But I
wait soaking silently And shiny lights are shining Down on me Broke and
lonely, cold and Hungry and though it may sound Funny, I'm doing alright
It's another dreary night Sometimes it's what you love Most that suffocates
you Sometimes it's good to give friends A chance to miss you Well home
is far away now But I remember how Sometimes it was Cold and lonely too...
In Control
You screw him over before he can screw you Tell
him you don't need him before he says he needs you You lead him on, stringing
him along Then put the blame on him when he asks "What went wrong?"
You deal with your fears by acting like you're better Don't give yourself
a chance to care, well you'll never Find out what you want cause you're
trying so hard to be In Control... Your air of confidence seems so appealing
While it's just a front, a front concealing Your insecurities, your inability
To deal with anyone Well you're a magnet to the weaker You got a flock
of true believers But they don't know the secrets of their leaders... You
make yourself look smart making someone else look dumb Turning words around,
manipulate the conversation You don't have much else to say Just snide
comments, that's your way of saying you're In Control... Your air of confidence
seems so appealing While it's just a front, a front concealing Your insecurities,
your inability To deal with anyone Why can't you just admit You're fucked
up too and deal with it? You're making other people feel like shit!